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Baby Lobster Population Declines In Gulf Of Maine

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A sternman holds a lobster caught off South Bristol, Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)
A sternman holds a lobster caught off South Bristol, Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

Record-low lobster prices may be coming to an end in New England sometime soon. New research shows that the number of baby lobsters in the Gulf of Maine has fallen by more than half of their 2007 levels.

Guests

Bob Glenn, chief marine fisheries biologist for the state of Massachusetts.

Jason Joyce, an eighth generation lobsterman based out of Swan's Island, Maine.

This segment aired on April 28, 2014.

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